Texas Instruments LaunchPad Evaluation Kits & BoosterPacks

Texas Instruments LaunchPad Evaluation Kits are available for a broad range of TI microcontrollers, including MSP430, C2000, and Tiva LM4F120 running on the ARM Cortex-M4. These low-cost kits provide developers with everything they need to start designing new applications. The LaunchPad evaluation kits are a great introduction to TI microcontrollers, providing within minutes options like blinking LEDs, motor spinning, and sensing data. LaunchPads come in different pin outs and are available in a 20-pin or 40-pin form factor. BoosterPacks are modular plug-in boards that fit on top of the LaunchPad baseboards. These modules introduce new functionality to the LaunchPad evaluation kits including wireless, capacitive touch, LED lighting, and more.

Texas Instruments MSP-EXP430FR6989 LaunchPad Development Kit is an easy-to-use Evaluation Module (EVM) for the MSP40FR6989 microcontroller (MCU). It contains everything needed to start developing on the ultra-low-power MSP430FRx FRAM microcontroller platform, including on-board emulation for programming, debugging and energy measurements. The board features on-board buttons and LEDs for quick integration of a simple user interface. It includes a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) display which showcases the integrated driver that can drive up to 320 segments. It also offers direct access to the Extended Scan Interface. This is a dual analog front-end (AFE) created for low-power rotation detection. The MSP430FR6989 device features ultra-low power consumption, 128KB of embedded FRAM, a non-volatile memory known for its ultra-low power, high endurance and high speed write access.

Texas Instruments MSP430 USB LaunchPad Evaluation Kit is an easy-to-use Evaluation Module based on the MSP430F5529 microcontroller. It contains everything needed to start developing on a USB enabled MSP430 MCU, including on-board emulation for programming and debugging as well as on-board buttons and LEDs for quick integration of a simple user interface. This LaunchPad is great for general purpose applications due to its 25MHz, integrated Full-Speed USB 2.0 and analog/digital integration; battery-operated applications thanks to it's low-power capabilities; and is great for beginners and experienced developers alike thanks to it's multiple points of entry into software development. Rapid prototyping is a snap thanks to 40-pin BoosterPack headers and a wide range of BoosterPack plug-in modules enabling technologies such as wireless, display drivers, temperature sensing and much more.

The Texas Instruments MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad experimenter board is a complete USB-based development and experimenter tool providing everything you need to launch your own MSP430 Value Line applications. The TI MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad includes an integrated DIP target socket that supports up to 20 pins, allowing MSP430 Value Line devices to be dropped into the LaunchPad board. An on-board flash emulation tool allows direct interface to a PC for easy programming, debugging, and evaluation. Included are free and downloadable software development environments for writing and debugging software. The TI LaunchPad can be used to create interactive solutions thanks to its on-board push buttons, LEDs, and extra input/output pins for easy integration of external devices.

Free downloadable versions of IAR Kickstart and Code Composer Studio Version 5 integrated development environments are available and include an assembler, linker, simulator, source-level debugger, and C-compiler

Texas Instruments MSP-EXP432P401R LaunchPad Development Kit enables you to develop high-performance applications that benefit from low power operation. The kit features the MSP432P401R, which includes a 48MHz ARM Cortex M4F core, 95uA/MHz active power and 850nA RTC operation, 14-bit 1MSPS differential SAR ADC and AES256 accelerator. This includes an on-board emulator with EnergyTrace+ Technology, which means you can program and debug your projects without the need for additional tools, while also measuring total system energy consumption. All pins of the MSP-EXP432P401R device are fanned out for easy access. These pins make it easy to plug in 20-pin and 40-pin BoosterPacks that add additional functionality like wireless, capacitive touch and more.

Texas Instruments LAUNCHXL-F28027 C2000 Piccolo LaunchPad is an evaluation platform designed to help the user leap right into the world of real-time control programming on the C2000 Piccolo microcontrollers. TI LAUNCHXL-F28027 LaunchPad is based on the Piccolo TMS320F28027 MCU that features 64KB of on board flash, 8 PWM channels, eCAP, 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), I²C, SPI, UART, and much more. The LaunchPad includes many board hardware features, such as an integrated isolated XDS100 JTAG emulator for easy programming and debugging, 40 PCB pins for easy access to the pins of the F28027 processor, reset button, and programmable button.

LAUNCHXL-F28027F is an InstaSPIN™-FOC enabled C2000™ Piccolo LaunchPad designed to introduce sensorless motor control using the InstaSPIN-FOC solution. This LaunchPad is based on the Piccolo TMS320F28027F with unique features such as 64KB of on board flash, 8 PWM channels, eCAP, 12bit ADC, I2C, SPI, UART, and InstaSPIN-FOC in on-chip execute only ROM memory.

Texas Instruments TM4C123GXL Tiva™ C Series LaunchPad Evaluation Board is a low-cost evaluation platform for ARM® Cortex™-M4F-based microcontrollers. The Tiva C Series LaunchPad design highlights the TM4C123GH6PMI microcontroller USB 2.0 device interface, hibernation module, and motion control pulse-width modulator (MC PWM) module. The Tiva C Series LaunchPad also features programmable user buttons and an RGB LED for custom applications. The stackable headers of the Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad BoosterPack XL interface demonstrate how easy it is to expand the functionality of the Tiva C Series LaunchPad when interfacing to other peripherals on many existing BoosterPack add-on boards as well as future products.

Texas Instruments Hercules LaunchPad Evaluation Kits

TI Hercules RM42 LaunchPad is an inexpensive evaluation platform designed to help users evaluate and get started on development with Hercules microcontroller platform. The launchpad is based on Hercules RM42L432, which is a dual core lock-step ARM Cortex-R4 based MCU with features like 12-bit ADC, N2HET with programmable timer pins, eQEP, MibSPI and serial communication interfaces. The LaunchPad comes pre-programmed with Hercules Safety MCU Demo enabling users to easily learn about the key safety, data acquisition and control features of the Hercules MCU platform.

TI Hercules TMS570LS04 LaunchPad is an inexpensive evaluation platform designed to help users evaluate and get started on development with Hercules microcontroller platform. The launchpad is based on Hercules TMS570LS0432, which is a dual core lock-step ARM Cortex-R4 based MCU with features like 12-bit ADC, N2HET with programmable timer pins, eQEP, MibSPI and serial communication interfaces. The LaunchPad comes pre-programmed with Hercules Safety MCU Demo enabling users to easily learn about the key safety, data acquisition and control features of the Hercules MCU platform.

Shared Features

USB powered

On board USB XDS100v2 JTAG debug

On board SCI to PC serial communication

Two LEDs

Reset switches

Ambient light sensor

40 pin BoosterPack XL Header

Footprint for an expansion header (not populated) to bring out all MCU Pins

BoosterPacks are modular plug-in boards that fit on top of the LaunchPad baseboards. These modules introduce new functionality to the LaunchPad evaluation kits including wireless, capacitive touch, LED lighting, and more. BoosterPacks include everything needed to create compelling new applications based on the LaunchPad evaluation kits, including a plug-in module, software, & documentation.

BoosterPacks are available for various applications and functions, and many BoosterPacks are supported by all LaunchPad variants. Each BoosterPack is provided in standard 100mil pitch, making it easy to connect to breadboards for quick prototyping, and they are available with 20-pin or 40-pin counts.

Multiple BoosterPacks can plug into an MCU LaunchPad Evaluation Kit. BoosterPacks can be placed on different docks or stacked vertically. This is especially useful when BoosterPacks need to share a common SPI or I²C bus. Be sure to check each BoosterPack to ensure compatibility.